You do know him,--much better than most girls know the men they marry.

You have known him, more or less intimately, all your life." "But am I bound to marry him because of that accident ?" "No; you are not bound to marry him,--unless you love him." "I do not love him," said Violet, with slow, emphatic words, and a little forward motion of her face, as though she were specially eager to convince her friend that she was quite in earnest in what she said.
"I fancy, Violet, that you are nearer to loving him than any other man." "I am not at all near to loving any man.

I doubt whether I ever shall be.

It does not seem to me to be possible to myself to be what girls call in love.

I can like a man.